Writes David Feherty in D Magazine: An F-List Celeb Imagines What Preston Hollow Life Will Be Like For W

From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.

Feherty is a former pro golfer and is now a TV commentator for the same sport. Clearly he needs to stick to golf and leave politics alone. I recognize that he was almost certainly trying to be funny (although, clearly he failed in that attempt). Some things are simply not funny (such as, I dunno, US military personnel murdering members of Congressional leadership).

Beyond that “not funny” part, there are a variety of other problems.

1. It is an example, in my mind, of the further Rush Limbaugh-ization of the discourse: i.e., the usage of mocking and humor (a term I use advisedly in this case) in lieu of thoughtful commentary (or, really, thought at all) designed in such a way as to tickle the ears of those who agree while excluding in a vicious way anyone who disagrees. In short: a lot of people who dislike Pelosi and Reid can get their morbid chuckle and anyone who doesn’t get the joke can sod off.

1a. It also reminds me in a vague way of some of the chain-mail e-mails people send around–and is written basically on that level.

2. The assumption that the US military belongs to the Republican Party lock, stock and barrel. That is a problematic stance in a variety of ways that I do not have time to explore at the moment.

3. Further, it strikes me insulting to the military.

“F-List Celeb” indeed.

Not surprisingly, Jules Crittendon somehow turns all of this into an indictment of the media and Congressional Democrats and wonders “… is Murtha in the elevator, too?”